Scattering of a plane-wave by a moving half-plane: A full relativistic study

Abstract

The aim of the present work is to reveal the effect of the motion on the scattering by a moving edge. To this end one considers the edge of a half-plane, which moves with constant velocity. This canonical problem permits one to investigate the effect of both the velocity and the direction of motion on the reflection, shadowing, and edge-diffraction phenomena. In the present work the incident wave is supposed to be a monochromatic plane electromagnetic wave while the half-plane is perfectly conducting.